This is, of course, an exaggeration of the both of them. Each has its own use case in which it performs better than the alternative. In truth, I use ubo as much as I use reader view :)
KEEP MY AD BLOCKER’S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!
Let me guess, you read video subtitles on YouTube?
Sometimes
But damn do more people need actual subtitles rather than the basic speech to text version, shit’s rough man
Don’t you? I always watch movies and play games with subtitles as well. Granted, English isn’t my native language. I would not do that in my native language.
You missed my joke, but that’s okay, I’ll explain it, I guess. OP said that they don’t use uBlock and that people who use it are “virgins” (no offense taken). I made a dig on them, as to how they’re watching videos in Firefox’s reading mode - by reading the subtitles?
Yo I didn’t know reader view existed what. That’s amazing thank you.
However, I’ve never encountered any problems with unmodified ublock, worked perfectly out of the box for me. On the rare case that I come across a website that wants me to disable my adblocker I simply do not care enough about whatever is on that website to do so.
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Alright so I tried it on a few websites and got a “cannot complete request” page as well as “Additional information about this problem or error is currently unavailable.” Pressing try again did not help
Ublock is down there in the trenches battling face to face with the ads for our sake and you dare to insult them? Reader view would be disappointed in you.
BTW Firefox has a built-in function that checks if the extractable text from the website is “acceptable” and will decide whether to display the button.
You can trigger it everywhere using
about:reader?url=https%3A%2F%2F[...]You can use another trick: bookmark
about:reader?url=%sand addreadas its keyword (only in Properties window, separate from “tags”). Then putread␣in front of any URL you want to view with Reader Mode!Oh that’s really handy! Thanks m7
The sad thing is that well made websites can be a beautiful thing. But with the amount of ads they ruin that experience. And by enabling read mode all that website design that came up in the last year’s is gone again
Reader view is great. But uBlock has its own purpose
There is an addon “activate reader view” that can force it if its not officially supported, sometimes works.
You forgot the key weakness of read mode: its dark mode is not real black (#000000), but dark grey. The difference is staggering with OLED screens.
I hate dark backgrounds though. Too much contrast.
But if done right (with grey text or something), it could be phenomenal.
There’s a reason most dark programming color schemes don’t have true black as their background, and it’s precisely this.
Darker text is the solution
Is there a way to make reader view automatic on sites where it makes sense? Quite often use it when I get the “uwu pwease disable adbwock” message on a sketchy site but would be nice to just always have it on those kind of sites
Other than the fonts, the left side honestly pretty accurate. uBlock Origin for life though.
Reader view is also a god send if you have ADHD or just struggle with attention span around electronics.
Reader mode is just regular Chad, me with my RSS reader with built in reader mode is the real Giga Chad
Are you sure the left part is about ublock origin and not noscript?
The worst part about NoScript is gradually learning just how extreme the script situation has become. Today’s web won’t be archived nearly as well as Web 1.0 was. It’s only gotten more hostile to people with disabilities.
